Information Policy

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John Chuang

Professor

Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy

Chris Jay Hoofnagle

Professor of Practice

Internet law, information privacy, consumer protection, cybersecurity, computer crime, regulation of technology, edtech

Deirdre Mulligan

Professor

privacy, fairness, human rights, cybersecurity, technology and governance, values in design

AnnaLee Saxenian

Professor

Regional economic development, Entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley.

Recent Publications

Context, Causality, and Information Flow: Implications for Privacy Engineering, Security, and Data Economics

May 8, 2018

The creators of technical infrastructure are under social and legal pressure to comply with expectations that can be difficult to translate into computational and business logics. This dissertation bridges this gap through three projects that focus on privacy engineering, information security, and data economics, respectively. These projects culminate in a new formal method for evaluating the strategic and tactical value of data: data games. This method relies on a core theoretical contribution building on the work of Shannon, Dretske, Pearl, Koller, and Nissenbaum: a definition of situated information flow as causal flow in the context of other causal relations and strategic choices.

China’s long game in techno-nationalism

May 7, 2018

The new world of data: Four provocations on the Internet of Things

Feb 6, 2017

Public Cybersecurity and Rationalizing Information Sharing

Apr 6, 2016

Assessing the Federal Trade Commission's Privacy Assessments

Mar 1, 2016

Native Advertising and Endorsement: Schema, Source-Based Misleadingness, and Omission of Material Facts

Dec 15, 2015

Privacy on the Ground: Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe

Oct 1, 2015

An examination of corporate privacy management in the United States, Germany, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom, identifying international best practices and making policy recommendations.

Cybersecurity Research: Addressing the Legal Barriers and Disincentives

Sep 28, 2015

Wireless Visions: Infrastructure, Imagination, and US Spectrum Policy

Mar 16, 2015

Where in the World is the Internet? Locating Political Power in Internet Infrastructure

Dec 1, 2014

Information Policy news

Ashkan Soltani Says FTC Exonerates Facebook in User Privacy Settlement

Jun 24, 2019

A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square, 1989. Photograph: Jeff Widener/AP

If Google goes to China, will it tell the truth about Tiananmen Square?

Aug 21, 2018

The company’s controversial plan to relaunch search is a chance to stand up for truth in the age of disinformation, say Deirdre Mulligan and Daniel Griffin.

Mark Zuckerberg caricature (image courtesy of Flickr user DonkeyHotey https://flic.kr/p/bZGj6W)

Commentary: Facebook in the Spotlight: Dataism vs. Privacy

Apr 24, 2018

Chris Hoofnagle discusses the policing of Facebook’s privacy policies and FTC enforcement.

Commentary: Facebook is right — this isn’t a breach

Mar 22, 2018

Facebook is right to claim this incident was no breach — this is Facebook’s platform working exactly as designed.

Deirdre Mulligan moderates ethics and computing panel at Turing Award celebration

Jun 27, 2017

Congress Is About To Give Away Your Online Privacy, Says Chris Hoofnagle

Mar 22, 2017

The FTC Can Regulate Cybersecurity, Say I School Professors

Feb 17, 2017

Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Deirdre Mulligan, and others weighed in on an ongoing lawsuit challenging the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to regulate companies’ data security practices.